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Dr Ahmar Mahboob earned his PhD at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2003. The title of his dissertation was: Status of nonnative English speakers as ESL teachers in the United States. Ahmar is keenly interested in the application of language sciences to developmental issues. His primary research interest is on an examination of policies, practices, and implications of language variation in local and global contexts. In pursuing this goal, Ahmar draws from and contributes to a range of linguistics and applied linguistics traditions, theories, and methodologies.
In 2019, Dr Mahboob was named as Australia's Research Field Leader: English Language and Literature in The Australian’s Research magazine.
Associate Professor Ahmar Mahboob.
Linguistics, School of Humanities (SOH)
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3169